As you may have seen in the comments to Will’s latest roundup, the idea of a Blogosphere BBQ has had people licking their lips. So we are kicking around a few ideas for a possible meetup.

Right now we are thinking of having a little gathering to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival, probably sometime in the week beginning 24 August, or 31 August. If you have any ideas, let us know.

See more information over at my blog.

The new address for the RSS feed: http://scottishroundup.co.uk/feed/

Here is an important notice for those loyal readers of Scottish Roundup who subscribe to the RSS feed. You may have noticed that no posts have appeared in the RSS feed since 29 March. This is an issue that has affected all four of my blogs, not just Scottish Roundup. So this experience has been a right pain in the neck.

Unfortunately, thanks to the increasingly unreliable service offered by Feedburner, I have decided to ditch the service. This means that I have had to change the address of the RSS feed. If you are subscribed to the Feedburner feed, please subscribe to the new URL:

The new address for the RSS feed: http://scottishroundup.co.uk/feed/

The Feedburner feed will for the time being redirect to the new address. But it will cease to exist in 30 days, so it is vital that you subscribe to the new address. Apologies for the hassle this causes.

The response to my plea for help was better than I had expected, so thanks to everyone who got in touch about that.

The team has been put together, and a number of Scotland’s best political bloggers are now contributing to the roundup on a more regular basis. I will elaborate on our plans more fully when I have the time, but for the time being here is a list of the people who are now helping out on the political roundup:

• Me
• Will Patterson from J. Arthur Macnumpty
• Malc in the Burgh
• Sara from A zippy adventure
• James from Two Doctors
• Stephen Glenn from Stephen’s Linlithgow Journal
• Scottish Tory Boy
• Cabalamat
• Scottish Unionist
• Holyrood Patter

As you can see, membership is pretty hefty now. But I’ll leave the door open for anyone who wants to join, and if I think their presence would improve the balance of the team then that’ll be great.

Meanwhile, there hasn’t been much of a response when it comes to helping out on the non-political roundup. Just Sara and I are on the team for that for the time being, so I would be grateful if more people could come forward.

Once again, I have found myself in the situation where I need to reduce my commitment to something due to a lack of time. I’ve already reduced my role in Scottish Roundup a bit since I set it up two years ago.

I had, however, hoped that more people would nominate more posts. Unfortunately, it has never reached more than a trickle (normally, only one or two posts are nominated per week). So even if I am not editing the roundup myself, I still provide a lot of my own suggestions, and I also usually step in if a guest was unable to do it.

But often I don’t have the time I need to produce a decent roundup every two or three weeks. And this is before I have found myself a full-time job! Add in the recent addition of the non-political roundup, and I find myself trying to find more ways to reduce Scottish Roundup’s dependence on my time.

It would also be unfair of me to ask Will Patterson, who does such an excellent job on the roundup every third week, to pick up all of the slack.

As such, I have decided to try and set up a team of perhaps five or ten people who are willing to chip in on a regular basis. Primarily, it would involve suggesting a handful of posts every week. Hopefully that way the roundup can contain dozens of great posts with relatively little effort. It would also be helpful if some people would be willing to edit the roundup on a semi-regular basis, perhaps once every two or three months.

It would be good if there was some political balance on the team as well — maybe one blogger for each of the five major parties and a few independents. This isn’t vital, but it’s an idea.

I’m not just looking for help on the political roundup. I probably need even more help on the non-political roundup, because in my experience it is much harder to compile the non-political roundup, mostly because there are so many more blogs and it is stressful to think that I might be overlooking a complete gem of a post!

So if anyone is interested in becoming involved in helping out with Scottish Roundup on a more regular basis, please let me know. Email me at scottishroundup@gmail.com.

If you’re not so keen on being involved that often, but you still fancy editing every once in a while, I’m always looking for more editors. And I have no way of knowing who does and doesn’t want to do the roundup, so if you fancy it then please don’t be shy in coming forward.

If you’re looking for this month’s non-political roundup, don’t worry. This month’s editor, Jacq Kelly, is having internet troubles. It’ll be published ASAP.

This is a good moment for me to also point out that, for ease of telling it apart, the non-political roundup will appear in red. So don’t be shocked if you see red next time you visit!